The PS1 Sky Surveys and Science Mission

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May 2007

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American Astronomical Society Meeting 210, #62.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.171

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The Pan-STARRS Telescope No. 1 (PS1) is a prototype telescope for a distributed aperture cyclical sky survey telescope; the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System.
The 3.5 year PS1 Science Mission is expected to begin after PS1 Operational Readiness Review, scheduled to take place before the end of 2007. PS1 will be operated for the duration of this Mission by the PS1 Science Consortium.
The planned PS1 Sky Surveys to be carried out include: (1) A 3pi Steradian survey with associated Calibration Fields; (2) A Medium Deep survey of 10 PS1 footprints spaced around the sky; (3) A solar system survey of NEO "Sweet Spots", (4) a Stellar Transit Survey; and (5) a Deep Survey of M31.
These surveys, their scientific goals, and the observing strategy to meet these goals will be discussed. Detailed simulations of the PS1 Design Reference Mission will be presented. The expected PS1 data products from the PS1 Science mission will be reviewed. It should be emphasized that all PS1 data and data products will be released to the astronomical community within one year of the completion of the PS1 Science Mission.
The PS1 Science Consortium consists of The Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawai'i in Manoa, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, The Johns Hopkins University, the University of Durham, the University of Edinburgh, the Queen's University Belfast, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Los Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network Incorporated, and the National Central University of Taiwan.
The Pan-STARRS project includes contributions from The Institute for Astronomy, the Maui High Performance Computing Center, SAIC, AFRL, and Lincoln Laboratory.

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